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Reading History Feature


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While it is possible to use stacks, to take snapshots, a history so to speak, of everything you have read about a topic, I often don't remember to click that button to remember where I was.

 

I want to be able to go back and say, for example, "Go to that dictionary article I read yesterday", or "What was that journal article I read at lunch time last Friday".  It seems to me that if Accordance kept a log of which articles/books/items you have read inside, it would make my life much easier.  

 

Often what has happened it, I have done a search and spent 20 minutes searching through the results to find something useful, and then later on, I think, "I need to cite that", and I can't remember how to get back to it! 

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Perhaps a users "Reading history" could actually be a default read only stack, that just collects titles of everything you look at.  That would give it an intuitive place to live in the user interface.

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Seems I can't amend the previous post, so I'll add this comment here. For me there are two use cases that a proper reading history will solve for me:

  1. An article I read during a research session last Friday did not at the time seem overly relevant to my research, so I didn't note it down. Perhaps one week later, after I have read more, I find myself thinking, "Oh, thats why this is important" but I cant work out which journal or dictionary I looked at that had that information.
  2. Sometimes there is a longer scale to it, i.e. "I remember xyz author wrote an article on that, I read it a few months ago", so I want to look at a list of everything I read from author xyz.  (same goes for other things, such as journal, i.e. I read about that in journal xyz, but what year was it again, I forget.. what keyword search did I use to bring that article up, I forget....."
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